kind of playbook for aspiring autocrats: appeal to people’s emotions, not their intellects; use “stereotyped formulas,” repeated over and over again; continuously assail opponents and label them with distinctive phrases or slogans that will elicit visceral reactions from the audience.

Perhaps leaning so hard as I have on democracy will only cause it to snap. Perhaps we need another word; perhaps the word can be refurbished and put to better use. Either way, technology is sure to be drafted in the cause. A further fruit of Langdon Winner’s reflections on artifacts and politics is an observation about the amnesia that surrounds

Soy enemigo de toda violencia y creo que mediante la dictadura, aunque sea con los fines más nobles, no vamos a acceder a una nueva sociedad. Y Rusia ha sido el mejor ejemplo. Por eso estoy en contra de cualquier tentativa violenta de imponer ideas. Creo en la pluralidad y la democracia. Se dice que la democracia es un régimen podrido, putrefacto y